Software for research for freshers jun 2010
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The document discusses using personal knowledge management strategies and tools to efficiently conduct research. It outlines stages of ideation, searching, storing, and retrieving information. Several free and commercial tools are mentioned that can help with tasks like mind mapping, searching literature databases, organizing references, storing notes and papers, and retrieving information. The document encourages starting early, being organized, and backing up data for effective personal knowledge management when conducting research.
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Software for research for freshers jun 2010
- 1. Experiences of Srinivasan Tatachari OB & HR Using Information Technology for Efficient Research Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln
- 2. Is there a choice? Information is moving to electronic avatars Is there a choice? Intimidating? Faint-hearted?? Solution: Personal Knowledge Management
- 4. Personal Knowledge Management Stages Ideation Search Storage Retrieval Application Artifacts Research papers, Ideas, electronic versions of books, handbooks, snippets from websites ….
- 6. Ideation Scribbles, notes Mind-mapping tools Helps in abstraction, conceptualization and collation of ideas Brainstorming & collaborating E.g. Xmind Mindmap tool Blogging/Twittering/Facebooking ?
- 7. Mind Map (example Xmind)
- 9. Seek & You shall Receive You search on-need or receive when ready Library visits, journals by mail Google – the ‘God’ of search? – Scholar Sometimes just old Google.com Research databases: JSTOR , EBSCO … Journal websites IIMB library assistance
- 10. References -> A to Z of EBSCO Respective journals’ website
- 11. Serendipitous Receive Email subscriptions for notifications New articles, journals Online First / New issue Print E-Mail lists like those of AOM, COGNET Discussions, information sharing
- 12. RSS feeds directly from journal sites Subscribing to RSS
- 13. FeedDemon
- 14. MS Outlook 2007
- 15. Email Alerts from Google Alerts Email Alerts from Google Scholar Hot
- 16. Storage & Retrieval aspects
- 17. Storing Print documents – physical archive , highlight Highlight in PDF (License?) Manual classification: Folder structure, Filenames Tag, classify, keywords, type of documents
- 18. Store snippets, urls, images… in Evernote
- 19. MS OneNote
- 20. Retrieval & Application B(u)y memory ! Go by manual classification and open each file to search OR….
- 21. Use desktop search tools: Copernic Desktop Search Similar to (better than?) Google Desktop
- 22. Retrieve snippets from Evernote
- 23. Zotero for Firefox stores citations, clips, notes, pdf & others Endnote – no site wide license!
- 24. Use Zotero for citation in Word
- 25. Mendeley
- 26. EndNote Commercial Referencing tool Not available on all desktops
- 27. Other tips Autohotkey Automatically search for highlighted word in any application from google and scholar website!
- 28. PDF-Xchange – Viewer free
- 29. Closing notes
- 30. Start early Be organized Be efficient Save Paper Backup data regularly (esp. laptops) You may need administrative privileges for desktop May not be the best tools/methods available Free! Some are experimental – beware of crashes!!
- 31. Thanks Contact for specifics: [email_address] It would be great if you can share your ideas from your experience/ experiments!!